{"id":303782,"date":"2021-09-08T17:22:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T17:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thediplomat.com\/2021\/09\/will-lasers-change-war\/"},"modified":"2021-09-08T17:22:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T17:22:00","slug":"will-lasers-change-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/09\/08\/will-lasers-change-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Lasers Change War?"},"content":{"rendered":"The first iterations of laser weapons will most likely serve to preserve the existing hierarchy of battlefield weapons. But as they grow more sophisticated, they may come to have the opposite effect.\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/thediplomat.com\/2021\/09\/will-lasers-change-war\/\">The Diplomat<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first iterations of laser weapons will most likely serve to preserve the existing hierarchy of battlefield weapons. But as they grow more sophisticated, they may come to have the opposite effect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":823,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303782"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/823"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303783,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303782\/revisions\/303783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}